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2005 US Open Swing Dance Championship, Showcase Division, 1st Place, partner Heidi Groskreutz [24] 2005 US Open Swing Dance Championships, Team Division, 1st Place Jump Start 2 2006 SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, 1st Place, "America's Favorite Dancer", after a tally of 16 million votes for the Finale
Heidi Groskreutz, born September 3, 1981, is a dancer from Cliffside Park, New Jersey, [1] and raised in Newport Beach, California. She specializes in Latin and swing dancing, and as of 2006, is a six-time U.S. Open Swing Dance champion. She has also the winner of the World Invitation Swing Dance Championship and many other top NASDE events.
Swing (dance) Peter Loggins and Mia Goldsmith swing dancing at the Moore Theatre, Seattle, Washington. Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular "swing era". Hundreds of styles of swing dancing were developed; those that ...
In dance competitions J&J is included as a separate division (or divisions, with additional gradations). J&J is popular at Swing conventions, as well as at ballroom dance competitions in the US. J&J competitions are intended to test social dance skills, whereas fixed partner "showcase" competitions test performance dance skills. [5]
West Coast Swing is a partner dance with roots in Lindy Hop, characterized by an elastic look that results from its extension-compression technique of partner connection and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the dance floor. The dance allows for both partners to improvise steps while dancing together, putting West Coast Swing in a short ...
She is an inductee into the National Swing Dance Hall of Fame and the California Swing Dance Hall of Fame. She is a U.S. Open champion, [6] was the NASDE top point winner, [7] two time California Balboa Champion, took third place in the National Carolina Shag Dance Championships, and won many Strictly Swing [8] and Jack and Jill dance contests ...
Norma Miller and Skip Cunningham 2009. Lindy Hop Dance, 2013. The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the African-American communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then. It was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Tiger Woods has quite the support system while competing in his first U.S. Open in four years. The 15-time major champion, 48, has employed his 15-year-old son, Charlie, as his swing consultant ...